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Fifth Planned Parenthood video turns to 'intact' fetuses
The Hill ^ | August 4, 2016 | Jesse Byrnes

Posted on 08/04/2015 12:01:20 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

A Planned Parenthood official discusses the procurement and cost of "intact" fetuses and altering abortion procedures to meet specific needs in a video released Tuesday by an anti-abortion group.

In the fifth of a series of videos from the Center for Medical Progress, a woman identified as Melissa Farrell, director of research for Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, discusses contributing to the organization's "diversification of the revenue stream" and the potential to "get creative" with conditions for procurement needs. The video was reportedly filmed in April at a Planned Parenthood facility in Texas.

"Just depending on the patient's anatomy, how many weeks, where it's placed in the uterus ... we're going to potentially be able to have some that will be more or less intact and then some that will not be," she says.

"But it's something that we can look at exploring how we can make that happen so we have a higher chance," she adds.

"And we've had studies in which the company, or in the case of the investigator, has a specific need for a certain portion of the products of conception and we bake that into our contract, and our protocol, that we follow this. So we deviate from our standard in order to do that.

"If we alter our process and we are able to obtain intact fetal cadavers, then we can make it part of the budget, that any dissections are this, and splitting the specimens into different shipments is this. I mean, it's all just a matter of line items," she says.

Planned Parenthood, which has argued the series of videos are a part of a smear campaign against the organization, quickly fired back.

"The footage released today doesn’t show Planned Parenthood staff engaged in any wrongdoing or agreeing to violate any legal or medical standards," Planned Parenthood Executive Vice President Dawn Laguens said in a six-paragraph statement.

"Instead, the latest tape shows an extremely offensive intrusion and lack of respect for women, with footage of medical tissue in a lab. These extremists show a total lack of compassion and dignity for women’s most personal medical decisions," she added.

Laguens said the latest video "will be difficult for many people to see," adding that "[m]edical procedures and medical research are often difficult to watch."

Laguens alluded to graphic images in the video of a gloved hand with tweezers sifting through a dish of fetal parts and tissue.

"It is standard medical practice to review tissue to ensure the health and safety of patients, and this tissue was being examined and handled under the false pretense of a standard laboratory site visit for people purportedly conducting qualified medical research," she said.

Planned Parenthood has pushed back strongly the videos released over the past few weeks. Officials note that the recordings are heavily edited and maintain that the group does not profit from the transfer of fetal parts and tissue to researchers, but does receive payment to cover costs related to the tissue's preservation and transfer.

The Center for Medical Progress's David Daleiden said earlier Tuesday on CNN's “New Day" that the most recent video shows evidence of "how Planned Parenthood is willing to sell fully intact fetuses to buyers of aborted fetal tissue.”

Debate over federal funding for Planned Parenthood is expected to resume on Capitol Hill after Congress's August recess, after a measure to defund the group failed in the Senate on Monday.

Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards defended the group on Monday, saying the Senate vote was “about denying women access to healthcare in this country.”

The Center for Medical Progress has said it will release more videos.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Extended News; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: abortion; bodypartsales; fetuses; plannedparenthood
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Houston's Third Ward

"The Third Ward is a predominantly African American community. As of 2011 over 13,000 people live in the Third Ward.....

....The Third Ward is in Texas's 18th congressional district. Its representative as of 2008 is Sheila Jackson Lee......

Nov 2011: The head of the Texas-based Planned Parenthood abortion business facing accusations of massive Medicaid fraud related to billing for abortions and birth control retired this past weekend. On Saturday the president of Planned Parenthood flew to Houston to participate in a swanky gala for retiring Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast CEO Peter Durkin.

As LifeNews.com reported yesterday, a former employee of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast has filed a whistleblower’s complaint with the Attorney General of Texas and the U.S. Department of Justice. The PPGC employee alleges that the abortion business engaged in an elaborate Medicaid fraud scheme.

According to a report on the Culture Map website, Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America and daughter of the late former Texas Gov. Ann Richards, flew into Houston from New York to participate in a farewell bash for Durkin. Houston Mayor Annise Parker issued a proclamation declaring the day as Peter J. Durkin Day in Houston and the event featured a presentation by pro-abortion U.S. Rep. Sheila Jackson Lee.

Durkin will eventually retire in April, but pro-life blogger Jill Stanek, who first noted the whistleblower lawsuit related to the Medicaid fraud, says he has numerous questions to answer now.

“After 26 years as CEO of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, Peter Durkin has announced he will retire in April 2012,” she said. “The timing works out well for Durkin to avoid publicly having to deal with a complaint filed by former PPGC employee Karen Reynolds alleging massive Medicaid fraud.”.. 2009: Debate over health clinic turns to minority access [targeting minorities]

1 posted on 08/04/2015 12:01:20 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“Products of conception.” The lefties sure do love their euphemisms.


2 posted on 08/04/2015 12:03:46 PM PDT by LydiaLong
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To: LydiaLong

A baby by any other name is still a baby!


3 posted on 08/04/2015 12:04:32 PM PDT by GilGil
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Planned Parenthood President Cecile Richards defended the group on Monday, saying the Senate vote was “about denying women access to healthcare in this country.”

So, PP is the only place women can get healthcare?? Then what the heck was all this obamacare stuff about??

4 posted on 08/04/2015 12:05:31 PM PDT by babyfreep
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

5 posted on 08/04/2015 12:05:39 PM PDT by smokingfrog ( sleep with one eye open (<o> ---)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

#BlackBabyLivesMatter


6 posted on 08/04/2015 12:07:33 PM PDT by Tennessee Nana
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To: Tennessee Nana

May 2012

Jackson-Lee:...“I think the next act will be dragging women out of patient rooms into the streets and screaming over their bodies as they get dragged out of getting access to women’s health care,” she said. “That’s what I feel like is occurring today with the legislation that is on the floor. Thomas, first of all, there is bipartisan and unilateral and unanimous support that we should not have agenda-based abortions for the sake of getting one gender over another. That’s a human, humane and humanitarian issue that none of us quarrel with.”

Jackson Lee explained her opposition stems from what she sees as the bill’s the invasion of privacy, and called the legislation “Draconian.”

http://dailycaller.com/2012/05/31/jackson-lee-women-to-be-dragged-out-into-the-streets-return-to-coat-hangers-on-abortion-act/


7 posted on 08/04/2015 12:11:11 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: LydiaLong

“Instead, the latest tape shows an extremely offensive intrusion and lack of respect for women, with footage of medical tissue in a lab. These extremists show a total lack of compassion and dignity for women’s most personal medical decisions,” she added.”

Just wow....

I’m actually surprised that The Hill reported on this story none the less.


8 posted on 08/04/2015 12:11:38 PM PDT by MNDude (God is not a Republican, but Satan is certainly a Democrat.)
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To: Tennessee Nana

#BlackLiversMatter


9 posted on 08/04/2015 12:15:16 PM PDT by dware (Yeah, so? What are we going to do about it?)
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To: LydiaLong

Intact fetal cadaver..

Euphemism for a whole dead baby.

They appear to be on their way for their appointment at hot lake.


10 posted on 08/04/2015 12:15:19 PM PDT by delchiante
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The Holocaust of the Wombies..

A pregnant girl has a Wombie.....
Which can indeed be MURDERED...


11 posted on 08/04/2015 12:16:59 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited (specifically) to include some fully orbed hyperbole..)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

First Carly Fiorina said it - and now Trump has said it

Defunding Planned Parenthood is worth shutting down the entire US Government, if it must come to that.


12 posted on 08/04/2015 12:20:54 PM PDT by PGR88
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To: LydiaLong

And “diversification of the revenue stream”.

Death camp NAZIs probably used just that phrase to describe pulling the gold crowns out of the Jews’ skulls.

Anyone that thinks women can’t be as evil as any man is a fool.


13 posted on 08/04/2015 12:24:59 PM PDT by polymuser ( Enough is enough)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Glossary

“Products of Conception” = All or part of a human baby.

“Highly Edited” = Not edited at all, revealing embarrassing truths.

“Lake of Fire” = A place to spend all eternity trying to wash off the blood of countless murdered babies.


14 posted on 08/04/2015 12:33:47 PM PDT by Junk Silver
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To: PGR88
Gov. Scott Walker was active in the pro life movement in college and now he and the Wis Legislature....

Scott Walker’s State Caucus Moves Quickly To Ban Sale Or Donation Of Fetal Tissue

15 posted on 08/04/2015 12:37:58 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: polymuser
Anyone that thinks women can’t be as evil as any man is a fool.

They should have read Shakespeare. "Infirm of purpose? Give me the dagger!"

16 posted on 08/04/2015 12:38:39 PM PDT by Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

Thank You CW!

I’m glad our team decided to stick their thumb in the eye of the judge, wanting to intimidate them into silence.


17 posted on 08/04/2015 12:39:26 PM PDT by G Larry (Obama is replicating the instruments of the fall of Rome)
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To: smokingfrog

No wonder they fight so hard to able to abort children who could live full lives if properly delivered and cared for.


18 posted on 08/04/2015 12:43:33 PM PDT by BenLurkin (The above is not a statement of fact. It is either satire or opinion. Or both.)
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To: PGR88

2000 Presidential Election: “..Donald Trump entered the race briefly, giving television interviews outlining his platform. Trump was progressive on social issues, and supported allowing openly gay soldiers in the military, saying: “it would not disturb me.”

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reform_Party_of_the_United_States_of_America

http://www.lifenews.com/2011/04/08/donald-trump-explains-conversion-to-pro-life-side-on-abortion/

2011: “...That was a marked change from how Trump described himself in his 2000 book The America We Deserve, where he wrote, “I support a woman’s right to choose but I am uncomfortable with the procedures.”

Today, in a new interview with CBN News’ David Brody, Trump explains the evolution of his thinking and how stories of pregnancies — including one in particular — helped change his mind on abortion.

“Evangelicals do want to feel secure that they’re going to have a nominee that’s going to at least be solid on those issues, those social issues. Someone that’s not just going to cut and move on,” Brody said to Trump.

The billionaire responded, “One thing about me, I’m a very honorable guy. I’m pro-life, but I changed my view a number of years ago.”....


19 posted on 08/04/2015 12:44:30 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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“Just depending on the patient’s anatomy, how many weeks, where it’s placed in the uterus ... we’re going to potentially be able to have some that will be more or less intact and then some that will not be,”

altering the medical procedure IN ANY WAY for revenue is completely illegal.


20 posted on 08/04/2015 1:08:06 PM PDT by longtermmemmory (VOTE! http://www.senate.gov and http://www.house.gov)
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